The folks on the Sword-devel mailing list are voting. Right now the vote count is 33. Up from 8 yesterday. So many thanks and if you have not voted, please do so.
There are a few hundred of you that are on these mailing lists and you can make a difference. See the links below. DM Smith wrote: > Several things are coming together: > 1) Bible Desktop is being translated into Farsi. > 2) Farsi Bibles are being turned into Sword Modules. Check the beta > module at: > http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModDisp.jsp? > beta=true&tester=true&modType=Bibles > 3) Bible Desktop can be run from a CD or USB drive without installing > Java on the host computer. > > Together this provides an excellent opportunity to help the Farsi > speaking churches in their evangelistic outreach. > > But there is a problem and you can help. And you don't need to be a > programmer. > > This language uses a right to left script and Java's Lucida font is > incomplete in it's support of Farsi. There is an open bug report for > it. If you register at Sun you can vote that this be fixed. It is > really suprising that the Sun folk won't take the time to fix a few > entries in the font, but they respond to "votes". > > In the top 25 bugs the 25-th bug has 37 votes. Perhaps we can get a > hundred or so. > > Here is the link to the bug report: > http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4646993 > > Here is a link to register to vote: > https://softwarereg.sun.com/registration/developer/en_US/new_user > > In His Service, > DM Smith > > _______________________________________________ > jsword-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/jsword-devel > > _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
